Heh! There were so many lights on the street, in mid-air, on high poles, ...... There are colorful lights in every corner. Standing in the street, looking along the street, Linze small town has become a world of lights, the sea of light. The beads of color, crystal dazzling, just like in the myth and legend: "Crystal Palace."
A good Linze Lantern Festival! It is not only the sea of lights, the world of light, countless people and countless lights together, constituting a strange scene of the sea of lights, I and countless tourists, like a sea of lights in the sea of leaves, surging waves undulating, laughing and enjoying the sea of lights in the exotic treasures. Eight o'clock, only to hear a few muffled sounds, a firework with red sparks scurrying up to the sky, a few crunching, the night sky bloom a few more beautiful flowers. They have different colors and shapes.
People's cries rise and fall. Blooming in the face, it is not a beautiful fireworks?
Today, not only expresses the atmosphere of the festival, but also reflects how sacred and joyful our traditional culture.
The second:
Today, it is January 15 of the lunar calendar, is intended to once the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, also known as the "on the Yuan Festival" and "Festival of Lights" is another festival that has a history of 2000 years since ancient times. Once the Lantern Festival, on behalf of the Spring Festival has been completed, so all over the Lantern Festival activities.
After dinner. Sitting in the living room, waiting for the fireworks set off by Chaozhou. "Knock knock" eight o'clock, the program started on time. A moment, the fireworks opened, "Boom" sound, a huge dragon in front of us; then, carp jump Dragon Gate; and then a, water dancing ballet, a pair, dancing more joy ..... Our whole family watched mesmerized, I can't help but say: how wonderful it would be to be there!" A scene of spirit was presented in front of our eyes, we did not applaud. I said excitedly, "Mom, I want to go to the fireworks." Mom said, "Go play. Don't get hurt."
We set off fireworks in the backyard. We first point "chameleon", then, showing a variety of colors, red, yellow, blue ..... Colorful, very beautiful. We waved the stick around, small fireworks like countless beautiful fireflies in a flash and dance, really interesting. Next, we put "rain flowers" like fairies scattered flowers, falling from the sky. "Little bees" flew up to the sky with a whoosh, like a flying saucer. The whole sky was colorful and blossomed with different colors. In the night, the fireworks from every house seemed to be competing with each other, one more spectacular than the other, and one more rare than the other! It was really interesting! Finally, the fireworks were over, and the surroundings were quiet. I still recall, enjoy the fireworks in the joy, laughter, long lingering in front of my window...
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The fifteenth day of the first month of the year came, I went to see the lanterns with my family.
The street was very busy and crowded. Seven o'clock ten to, began to fireworks, "bang ......" sound, fireworks have green, red, yellow, purple, colorful, colorful. Look, a "super-sized" fireworks flying up to the sky, followed by a boom, and then bloomed a small one fireworks covered the sky, some like zinnias, some like chrysanthemums. Some of the countryside city welcome spring flowers ...... and "bang! Bang" sound a few times, some fireworks in the bread with small bees, after the explosion, the launch of fireflies like light. Colorful flowers covered the entire Lijin County. Look at the golden waterfall flowing down, each gold wire down, sparkling gold flowers spread over the earth. As the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai said, "Flying down three thousand feet, suspected that the Milky Way falls into the nine heavens."
After watching the fireworks, we went to see the lanterns, we saw the twelve Chinese zodiac signs, they seem to be waving to us, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse ...... in the tourists to express the blessings of the New Year. Further ahead, we saw the Disneyland, inside the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other "masters", they play a variety of musical instruments, it is really singing and dancing, congratulations on the new year ah! We also saw the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" lights, there are Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Liu Bei three, they are in the Peach Orchard brotherhood, I seem to hear them say: "We can not be the same year and the same day of life, but I hope that we are the same year and the same day of death. "There are also drums and gongs, and the sound is indeed wonderful and beautiful.
I had such a happy day.
Last:
Lantern Festival, is a people know the household festival, everyone no matter how busy will take some time to accompany the family: Lantern Festival, is relatives and friends from all over the world to come joyfully gathered together, eat a bowl of steaming hot dumplings,, and enjoy the night sky of that glorious fire trees and silver flowers.
The streets are crowded with cars and lights. Around the city center, four wide road lights, so that the whole city shrouded in a sea of lights, everywhere overflowing with festive atmosphere, our family strolled in the garden, really comfortable ah!
The most noteworthy, or that "non-flower but more than flowers even" fireworks. A colorful fireworks rose up in the air, a grain of "gold sand" sprayed out in the air proudly bloom. After the fireworks exploded, a bright shiny thing floating down, like a colorful meteor; some fireworks after the explosion is a double layer, then into a beautiful shape; some exploded like a meteor shower, brush down; there are as a colorful gold ring, the sky becomes brilliant, a few crunching, the night sky and blossomed a few beautiful flowers. Their shapes and colors vary, there are colorful stars, golden dandelions, purple petunias, red roses, pink moon, silver lilies ......, colorful. Open the gift flower such as a colorful ball, like a snowflake, like a shooting star dragging a ribbon, the dark night sky illuminated as day, the night of the Lantern Festival has become incomparably beautiful, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple, all kinds, beautiful flowers, decorate the night sky beautiful, graceful, and irradiate the earth as white as day. "Tong!" The mountain rose again a big red fireball. It flew into mid-air, "pop" sound, turned into millions of small sparks splashed away, dragging a long, sparkling tail slowly fall, like a flying butterfly, from the air spinning down; but also like the wind blown dandelions, I do not know which naughty boy, painted them with colorful colors... ... "Tong Tong Tong!" "Snort!" Look! A bright, colorful flames trailing a long tail, scrambling to be the first, and then after leaping up into the night sky; look! There rises the "heavenly maiden scattered flowers", here appeared the "peacock open screen"! Wow! And then look at the "budding" there ...... sky suddenly became a "flower" garden, "flower" ocean, "flower", "flower", "flower", "flower", "flower", "flower", "flower", "flower". The sky became a "flower" garden, "flower" ocean, brilliant and eye-catching, fire trees and silver flowers, how beautiful ah! The whole town is boiling ......
With the sound of the gun, people in the exclamation, in admiration, the night, people slightly raised face is also changing colorful, but also revealed a happy smile, they are not also like a beautiful fireworks!
The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese festival of the Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month, the ancients called the night "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the "Festival of the New Year". According to Chinese folk tradition, in the beginning of the year, the earth back to spring festival night, the sky bright moon hanging high, on the ground colorful lanterns people watching the lanterns, guessing riddles, eat the Lantern Festival family reunion, a happy and harmonious.
The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and is said to have been set up by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty to commemorate the "Ping Lu". After the death of Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Empress Lu usurped power and the Lu clan took control of the dynasty. After the death of Empress Lu, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping and others pacified her power and installed Liu Heng as Emperor Wen of Han. Since the day of the quelling of Lu was the 15th day of the first month, every year after that, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty went out of the palace in a small dress and had fun with the people to commemorate the occasion. And the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of "Taiyi God" was held on the 15th day of the first month. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival in the "Taichu Calendar".
China's folk custom of eating Lantern Festival. According to folklore, the Lantern Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period of King Zhao of Chu. On the fifteenth day of the first month, King Zhao of Chu passed through the Yangtze River and saw something floating on the surface of the river, which was a kind of sweet food that was white on the outside and red on the inside. King Zhao of Chu consulted Confucius, who said, "This floating fruit is also a sign of revival of the Lord". Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival rice cakes, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, are festive food. Eating the Lantern Festival symbolizes the reunion of the family like the full moon, and sends people's good wishes for the future life. Lanterns in the south called "dumplings", "round", "floating round", "water round", made of glutinous rice, or solid, or with filling. The fillings include bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, etc. They can be boiled, fried, steamed or deep-fried.
The custom of lighting lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements"; the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Upper Elements Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the Middle Elements Festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the Lower Elements Festival. In charge of the upper, middle and lower Sanyuan were "heaven", "earth", "people" three officials, the heavenly officials are happy, so the lanterns should be lit on the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival lantern fire, since the Han Dynasty when there has been this custom, the Tang Dynasty, the Lantern Festival doubled the importance of the Lantern Festival; in the Lantern Festival lantern has become a custom. Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolin in the "fifteenth night to watch the lights" in this way to describe the Lantern Festival lanterns burning spectacle "catching the Han suspected that the stars fall, according to the building like the moon hanging." Lantern Festival lamp burning custom, through the inheritance of successive dynasties, the festival lamp type more and more, the name of the lamp content is also more and more, there are mirror lamps, phoenix lamps, glazed lamps and so on. Lantern Festival in addition to lighting, but also fireworks to help.
"Guess the lantern riddle" also called "playing lantern riddles" is the Lantern Festival after the increase of an activity, appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Lin'an made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were a lot of people guessing riddles. In the beginning, the riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess. The riddles were popular among people from all walks of life because they were both intellectually stimulating and interesting.
Besides celebrating the Lantern Festival, there is also a faith-based activity. That is, "walk a hundred diseases," also known as "roast a hundred diseases," "spread a hundred diseases," the participants are mostly women, they walk in pairs or walk along the wall, or across the bridge to the countryside, the purpose is to drive away the disease and get rid of the disaster.
With the passage of time, the activities of the Lantern Festival more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing the dry boat twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other activities.